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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence
Constant, Amelie - 2017
insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and … measurement challenges. While health is part of human capital, health assimilation is the mirror image of earnings assimilation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735974
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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence
Constant, Amelie - 2017
insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and … measurement challenges. While health is part of human capital, health assimilation is the mirror image of earnings assimilation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119651
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The effect of schooling on parental integration
Sommerfeld, Ann-Marie - 2023
Exploiting the age-at-enrollment policies in 16 German states as exogenous source of variation, I examine whether the schooling of the oldest child in a migrant household affects parents' integration. My analysis links administrative records on primary school enrollment cutoff dates with micro...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014426466
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Unsuccessful subjective well-being assimilation among immigrants : the role of faltering perceptions of the host society
Hendriks, Martijn; Burger, Martijn J. - 2018
predictions of straight-line assimilation theory, along with the general improvement of immigrants' objective living conditions … with their length of stay. Using European Social Survey data, we show that the subjective well-being assimilation of first … perceptions continue to impair subjective well-being assimilation across generations. However, compared with natives, first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011924808
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Language proficiency and homeownership : evidence from U.S. immigrants
Luik, Marc-André; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich; Voss, Simon - 2023
capital and, in particular, language proficiency for socio-economic assimilation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014235116
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Estimating immigrant earnings profiles when migrations are temporary
Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2016
The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career profiles, is not supported by the empirical evidence. Rather, many - if not most - migrations appear to be temporary. In this paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011481390
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Limits to wage growth : understanding the wage divergence between immigrants and natives
Jain, Apoorva; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2017
panel from 1984 to 2014. We incorporate the possibility of wage divergence into a two-period model of economic assimilation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704320
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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence
Constant, Amelie - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011792711
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The personal distribution of income and imputed rent : a cross-national comparison for the UK, West Germany, and the USA
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2002
This article deals with income advantages derived from owner occupied housing (Imputed Rent, IR) and their impact on the personal income distribution. Following a brief description of different methods with which to calculate IR in household surveys, we conduct a cross-national comparative study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435844
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Housing environmental risk in urban areas : cross country comparison and policy implications
Chiarini, Bruno; D'Agostino, Antonella; Marzano, Elisabetta - 2017
The main aim of this paper is to assess whether there is a statistically significant environmental impact of cities within European countries. Second, starting from the estimated environmental impact of cities within European countries, the paper investigates whether cross-country variation can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011781394